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Use ChatGPT and AI to Create Animated Videos from Images for Reels, Shorts & TikToks

teacher avatar Jack Sichi, Social Media Marketer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:41

    • 2.

      Ai Tools Are Changing Everything

      2:08

    • 3.

      Ideas For Short Form Videos

      5:06

    • 4.

      Generating Quality Images

      7:41

    • 5.

      Animate Images to Videos

      6:48

    • 6.

      Editing Your Videos

      6:09

    • 7.

      What Makes an Ai Video Watchable

      1:52

    • 8.

      Conclusion

      0:40

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Welcome! In this course, "Use ChatGPT and AI to Create Animated Videos from Images for Reels, Shorts & TikToks,"
you’ll learn how to generate stunning AI images and bring them to life with smooth animations — perfect for creating short-form content that stands out on any platform.

We’ll start by learning how to craft effective prompts that guide AI to create exactly the kind of images you want — whether it’s for storytelling, content creation, or personal branding. You’ll discover how to shape your ideas into clear, powerful image prompts that get amazing results.

Next, I’ll walk you through how to generate those images step by step. You don’t need any design experience — just a creative mindset and a willingness to experiment.

Then, we’ll move into animation. You’ll learn how to take your static images and transform them into engaging animated videos with smooth motion, visual effects, and a professional look — no complex editing required.

After that, we’ll go over light editing techniques to enhance your animations. You’ll discover simple ways to polish your videos so they’re ready to post and make an impact.

By the end of this course, you’ll know how to:

  • Write powerful prompts to generate AI images

  • Create unique visuals with just a few steps

  • Animate your images into captivating videos

  • Do simple edits to elevate your final results

This course is beginner-friendly and action-oriented. Follow along with each lesson, apply what you learn immediately, and build a content workflow that allows you to create animated videos consistently and efficiently.

Let’s get started and bring your creativity to life

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Jack Sichi

Social Media Marketer

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Hi, I'm Jack, a digital creator and educator passionate about helping people learn creative skills to express themselves and build something meaningful.

I teach practical, beginner-friendly classes on topics like content creation, digital tools, and creative workflows always focused on making things simple, fun, and easy to follow.

Whether you're here to learn something new, start a creative habit, or explore your ideas with confidence, you're in the right place.

Let's create something great see you inside one of my classes.

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1. Introduction: Welcome. My name is Jack, and I'm going to be your instructor in this course. So this course is about teaching you how to create content using AI tools only. And this is content that you can apploud on your Instagram page, your YouTube channel, or your TikTok account. So what you're going to learn exactly in this course is how to use AI tools to generate images and turn those images into animation videos. Now, there's so much you can do with other tools out there, so let this class B a step into exploring the possibilities of AI. And without wasting any time, let's dive into the content of the course. 2. Ai Tools Are Changing Everything: How AI tools are changing everything. Contentration is evolving faster than ever, and AI is right at the center of it. So if you're still doing everything manually, you might already be falling behind. So in this video, I want to talk about where this whole contentration team is going and how we can stay ahead. So the first thing I want to talk about is speed and accessibility. So AI is making high quality content faster and easier to create what used to take hours like animating, editing, or scripting now takes minutes to do. So if you have a lot of tools, for example, the one I'm going to show you in this course, tools that turn static images into animation videos that used to be a pro level work. But now anyone can do it, and there's no more tech barriers. It's just an idea that you need to execute. And another thing I need to talk about is new creative possibilities. So it's not just about speed, it's also about what's possible. You can create dream like visuals, surreal transitions, and a full storytelling video using nothing but a single image and some prompts. So that's the power of AI, and AI is giving creators tools that didn't even exist like a year ago, and it's opening up a whole new style of content. So AI is creating a lot of new possibilities for creators. Also, there's the rise of the solo creator. So AI is leveling the playing field. So you no longer need a team of editors, animators, or designers. Only one person, one person with the right tools, and the vision can compete with an entire production team. If you're learning and adapting now, you're setting yourself up for a massive creative and financial freedom. So if you're not yet exploring these AI tools, now is the time for you to get started. The future of AI content creation is no longer coming. It's already here. The best thing for you to do is to start now. Start creating smarter, not harder. So let's move on to the next video. 3. Ideas For Short Form Videos: Welcome. In this video, I'm going to show you guys how to generate ideas for short form videos, and for that, we're going to use a prompt. So here's a prompt I'm going to use right here and it reads, I'm creating Instagram reels, TikToks, and YouTube shorts using an image to video generator and I need creative content ideas that translate well into engaging short videos. So suggest unique themes, trending concepts, or storytelling angles that could inspire effective prompts for generating images. Okay, now, I want you to notice here what it says, suggest unique themes, trending concepts or storytelling angles that could inspire effective prompts. So what we're going to do is we're going to come up with ideas and we're going to use those ideas to come up with prompts for generating images. All we have to do is copy this prompt right here and paste it into CharBT or a similar AI writing tool. So I'll go ahead and do that real quick. So let's just go ahead and copy this. Copy this prompt right here, then come over here to CharPT. Then I'm going to paste that in here. Then Okay, so as you can see, we have ideas right here. So what you want to do is just go through the ideas. So right here, here are some creative and training content ideas. Tell her to short form videos using an image to video generator. So we have futuristic and AI driven themes. So we have these ideas right here. So what you want to do is go through the ideas and see what resonates with you the most because with this, what you're going to do is you're going to be creating a lot of content and building a social media account around a niche. So make sure it's something that you're interested in and have a lot of you know, passion for that niche. So what you want to do just go through these ideas and these topics and see if it's something that you can create content about every single day. So after going through all these ideas, I think I resonate the most with this right here, time travel through yes eyes because, you know, I like time travel, ideas, I love history and love eyes. So you just copy this whole thing. Time travel through yes, eyes. Then come down here. Then what you want to say is and say, right. A prompt. About the only pass that in here. Then go ahead and click here right here. And you're going to generate a prompt for that. So just go ahead and read this and see if it's something that you want to work with. I just read through this prompt and I think I'm going to use the exact prompt right here. If you look at this prompt right here, you can tell that it's a little bit broad. Like we have so many different ideas that we can get from this one prompt right here. So right here, it says the images should show a time traveler journey through different errors. For example, have dance or error or something like that. Now, one thing to keep in mind is if you want your images to be very specific, you can go ahead and make those changes. Like right here, if you want a script, that only focuses on the dinosaur error. You can make those tricks right here. Right here, we can say focus only on the dinosaur error, then enter ChargT will come up with a prompter only focuses on that one specific time in history. So you can see right here. For this prompt right here, it's a little bit broad. You can see right here the time traveler could be a futuristic explorer in a sleek suit witnessing Ancient civilization, medieval castles, futuristic cities, and many more. Now, if you just want to focus on the dinosaur era, obviously, you're not going to have Ancient civilizations or medieval castles. So just keep that in mind. Your prompt could be broad, or it could be very specific.This is exactly how you make the changes. If you want specific storyline or angle, you can go ahead and ask Charge PT to make those changes. This is exactly how you come up with ideas. So what you want to do is pass this prompt right here in ChargJPT. Come up with ideas. Once you have your ideas, go ahead and come up with a prompt that you're going to use to generate images. We have our prompts right here. With the prompt, you can choose a specific angle that you want to focus on so you can go abroad or you can go specific. This is exactly how you come up with ideas and generate prompts for images. So in the next video, we're going to go ahead and generate our images. 4. Generating Quality Images: Now in this video, we're going to go ahead and generate our images using AI, and the to we're going to use is called Leonardo AI. What you can do is C over here to Google and search for Leonardo AI, and you can go overhead to this first link right here. Okay, so as you can see, this right here is Leonardo AI. So what you can do is go ahead and click on Get Started and you can go ahead and create your account. Right. So on this page, what you can do is sign up with Apple with your Google account, with your Microsoft account, or you can go ahead and sign in with your email address. So go ahead and do that and you'll be able to log into your dashboard. Okay, so once you log into Leonardo AI, this is what you're going to see right here. So over here, if you scroll down, you can see all the other images that people are generating using this too. Now, we don't want to get distracted right here, so we're just going to focus on what we have to do. So right here, what you can do is click here on image creation or on the left. Under AI tools, you can select image creation. So select that. Okay, so right here on this page, this is where we're going to create our images. So right here you see it says type prompt. This is where we're going to add or prompt. Then we're going to click on Generate and it's going to generate our images. Then if you scroll down here, you can see all the other images I was generating before. So you can see right here. This is my previous work. And on the left right here, we have presets and models right here. So if you want, for example, an anime style image, you can select Anime right here. Then we have all these other ideas right here that you can choose. So I just leave it right here on Phoenix. Here, then you can make some changes right here. Let's see, for the dimension, you can leave it on 23 because we're going to be creating short form videos. I think with that, we're going to generate number of images right here. It's four, leave it on four and I don't usually play around with these settings. What you can do right here is now go ahead and add your prompt right here. Remember in the previous video, we generated these two prompts right here. We're going to go ahead and generate images for both of them. Let's go ahead and do it for this prompt right here. Come over here and right here, you're going to test your prompt. Now, just keep in mind that we have a limited number of tokens that you can use every single day. So right here, for each prompt that you generate, you're going to use 24 tokens. Now, I've done this twice already, so we have 102 tokens remaining. So you can see right here, it says, I have 102 out of 150. So every single day, you have 150 free tokens that you can use, so it can generate a good number of images. Let's go ahead and generate Okay, so we have our images right here. If you scroll down here, you can see that this is very interesting. Because our prompt was so broad, we have so many different kinds of images right here in one, and we're not going to use this. We need a single image like this one right here. It has an idea, but not quite what I'm looking for. And this again, I don't want this. I don't want multiple images in one. So that's the reason why it's better to be specific. So if you have a broad prompt, just make sure you have specific instructions right there to let you know exactly what you're trying to generate. Let's go ahead and use this out of pront right here that's a little bit more specific. That only focuses on one idea right here. So we can go ahead and replace everything. Let's select all, then pat out of prompt, then generate Okay, so we have our results right here. So if you scroll down, you can see now our images are better than the previous one. You can see this is a little bit consistent right here. You can see that we have a time traveler right here visiting dinosaurs, which would be a nice thing to do. Let's scroll down here and you can see we have all these images, and you can see which image you like the most. I think amongst these, I'll go with this one. Or of these two. I think this one right here. But this right here is also right. Let's go ahead and generate another image with another idea. We can go back here to our prompt, then let's see what we can come up with using that. It can be as specific and descriptive as you want to be. Let's go ahead and try this one out. Select O replace that with this new prompt, then let's go ahead and generate. So after two more tries, I was finally able to get the images I was looking for. So let me show you guys down here. So we did generate the dinosaurs right here. Then I got this, and this is okay. I like this a lot. I can work with this. So with this image right here, you can make this person, walk forward like that towards this weird looking pyramid right here. And let's see. We have all these other images you can work with here, and all these are almost perfect. I mean, look at this. I could work with this. This is amazing. And I'll show you guys how to turn these into, like, animations. So again, right here, I use the more specific prompt. So for this one, I asked for a futuristic time traveler, like stepping through a glowing portal. So you can see right here, we have a glowing portal that they move through right here. So it's like really interesting concept right here. We have Ancient Egypt and we have pyramids and Egyptian scholars. I was a bit more specific with this prompt right here. That's the reason why we have these images right here. So so this is exactly how you generate images using AI, and with these images, we can turn these into animations using another AI too. So for this one, for example, we can make this person walk forward using another or two to animate this image. So yeah, that's pretty much exactly how you go about generating images. Just make sure you come up with a good prompt using the help of ChargePT and with Leonardo AI, you can come up with amazing images that you can work with right here. So once you find your image, you can go ahead and download that image. So I'll download two images right here. Let's see. I'll go with this one right here or maybe this one right here. Let's just go ahead and download this one. So you want to click here, download image, like that. The image has been downloaded. Let's go ahead and download this one right here. Click here. Go ahead and download the image right here, download image, and you have the images in your computer right here. Okay, so now that we've downloaded our images, we can go ahead and animate these images. So we can move on to the next video in order to do that. 5. Animate Images to Videos: Welcome. In this video, I'm going to show you guys how to animate images to videos. So in the previous video, we downloaded these two images right here. So what I'm going to do now in this video is I'm going to turn these images into animation videos. So let's go ahead and do that. Right. So the first step is to come to this website called HLo. So search for this on Google, and you're going to see the link. The first link right here, it's hoi dot video. Make sure you go to the right domain. So once you click here, it's going to take you to this website right here. Now, for every tool or software that I recommend in my classes, make sure that you go to the correct domain name right here. So here's the domain name right here. The reason why I'm telling you this is because there are a lot of fake websites out there that try to copy the original thing. Now, if you go to a wrong website, they might try to steal your information. So whenever you're using these tools, always make sure that you're going to the right domain name. So it's Hu AI dot Video. So once you get here, it's going to bring it to this page right here. So the first thing you want to do is go ahead and sign up for an account. So just click here on signing. You can go here and continue with Google or with Apple. So I prefer Google, so I'll go ahead and create my account with Google. So once you do that, you're going to go ahead and log into your account. And right here, you can see I'm logged into my Google account right there. So what you want to do now is go ahead and create your videos. So to do that, on the left side right here, if you want to find what says create video, select that and right here, you can go ahead and create your video. So on the left, you can see we have all these odd videos I was working on. So these are the odd animations I was creating. Here's one right here. Really cool. So we're going to create something similar to this. So what we want to do is go ahead and upload our image. So right here, click there and go ahead and select your image, the image that you want to upload to this too right here. So I'll select the images that we created in the previous video. So I'm going to go ahead and select this one right here. Open this. Okay, so the image is done uploading. So now what you want to do is go ahead and add some instructions right here. So down here, you can see what it says control camera movements. So right here, you're told you can enhance camera movements by inputting natural language or inserting instructions. So you just going to click here and you're going to set instructions. So what we're going to say right here is walking through through time travel travel. Portal. And we're going to work on the camera angle. So let's see, it's right here, camera movements. Let's select this. And right here, we can select the camera movements that we want. So we can select this right here. Or this right here where the camera kind of zooms out. So you can select whichever you prefer right here. This one's going kind of interesting. Let's try this one right here. So select this. Okay, so we have our instructions right here, so it's working through a time travel portal, and we have the camera movements right here. So selected this. You can change this if you want. It doesn't matter. So we have that, and I think we're done. So all we have to do is click here say 30. So every day you have like 100 credits that you can use. So go ahead and click here. And now the video is being created. So you can see right here, our video is being generated. Okay, so our video is Dine generating, so let's go ahead and click here to view it. Okay, so here's our video right here, so you can just look at it for yourself. And honestly, this is pretty good. I'm actually impressed. So what you can do is go ahead and download the video. If you want to make some changes, you can come back here, add some instructions or you can change the camera angle. So to download the video, you can click here to download it. So if you download it with a watermark, it's going to have this watermark, that's just see down here. Let me just show you. You click here, you can see we have the watermark down here. So if you want to remove the watermark, if you come here to download, click here to remove Watermark, you can have to upgrade to a premium version of these two. You can see right here, here are the plans if you want to do that, or what you can do is you can go ahead and download it with a Watermark, and you can go ahead and edit this part out right here where the watermark is. I'll show you how to do that the next video. So go ahead and download this. So let's go back here and generate another video. So we can go ahead and delete this and click here and let's go ahead and upload this one. Alright, so we have this other image right here, so we can add some instructions. So let's see. Let's change the camera angle. Let's try this one right here. And what in working through let's say exploring exploring an ancient nation city. Damn traveler exploring an ancient city. Let's go ahead and generate this. Now, I did not put specific instructions like walking. I just say exploring. I don't know what it's going to do with that, let's find out. Let's go ahead and click here. Okay, so our video is generating right here. Okay, so our video is done generating. Let's go ahead and check it out. Okay, so there's a video and you can go ahead and download this as well. So once you download the video, you can go ahead and start editing the videos and create your Instagram reels, TikTok videos or YouTube shots. So this right here is exactly how you animate images into videos using this tour here, hilo AI. And as you can see, guys, here are the results. You can see for yourself. So you can decide for yourself whether or not this is good. I think it's pretty good. So thanks watching this video, I hope you found some value in this video. Let's move on to the next one. 6. Editing Your Videos: In this video, I want to show you guys how you can edit the videos that you just generated. Now, you can use any editing software, but for this example, I'm going to show you guys how to use Cupcad. All you have to do is come here to cbcard.com, and what you want to do is click on Download and you want to download the software into your computer. Then after that, go ahead and install the software, then launch it. Then after you launch it, this is what you're going to see right here. And right here, all you have to do is just click on Create Project, right there just create project. Right. So this window is going to open up right here. So what you want to do is go ahead and import your videos in here. Right here, it says, Import. You want to click there. Then you want to locate your videos. I'll go up here to my desktop. These are the videos right here. I'll just go ahead and open them open. And my videos have been imported right here in Capcad. So to edit the videos, all you have to do is just go ahead and you can just click on the video or you can drag it to timeline right here. I'll just click on it. All right. So it's showing up right here. So to add this right here, why you can edit it. You can click here on this plus button right here. You can see right here, it's been added to my timeline and I can start editing the video. Or another way you can do it is like this. You can just click and drag it down here. I like that. It's been added right there. We can go ahead and edit the video. Now, what I'm going to show you guys is how to remove the watermark right here on the video. Convey here. Just click here and you want to drag the the corners like that. So it's not showing right there. Then you can click here to maximize the video so you can view it like this. Then go ahead and play it. As you can see, the watermark is not showing right here. So that's a very simple edit you can do right here for this video. So as you can see, we have no watermark right there. It's been removed. Just like that. Then go ahead and delete this and show you the exact same thing with this video. You can do this. You can see right here. Let me show you guys. If I maximize this, you can see this watermark right here. So to remove that, like I sad, just drag the corners until the watermark is not showing anymore. Then you can see right here, we do not have any water. Okay. Perfect. What you want to do now is go ahead and export this right here. Now, if you want to add some audio to your video right here, there's a website I would suggest you guys check out. Oh you right here, it's called Pixel Bay. Pixel Bay, you can find a lot of royalty free images like photos, vectors, videos, music, sound effects, and a lot of stuff that you can get right here. So I suggest you use websites like Pixel Bay if you don't want to run into copyright issues. If you're going to use sounds in your videos, make sure you download those from the right website. Pixel Bay is a really good example I can give you guys. So go ahead and check this out. It's really good. I'm just going to add some audio right here. I'll just come here to import, and let's see. I'll go and check out the audios. The right here, I'll just find some sounds I downloaded. I just try this one right here. Just show you guys an example. So what you want to do is you want to add this to timeline. So you just click on this plus button right here, like that. Now it's showing up right here, as you can see. So we can click right here. Let's dig this to where it ends right there. I can click here. Then I can click here where it says split. Okay, now have these two parts right here. Then you can select this other part, then delete this part. Okay, perfect. Alright, so we have a audio and a video right here. Let's go ahead and play this. So it's very simple like that. You can do all kinds of edits that you want, but in this video, I just wanted to show you guys how to remove the watermark. So once you're done editing your video, go ahead and export it and go ahead and download it to your computer and you can upload it to any website you want out there. So go ahead and export this. As you can see, it's exporting. Wait for it to finish. Okay, so the video is done exporting. Let's go ahead and open the photo right here so you can check out the video. Okay, so it has to be this one right here. Let's go ahead and play this. Okay. So as you can see, we have a video right here without the watermark. All you have to do is just find an editing software that you can use to remove the watermark. Like I told you guys, it's very easy to do that with cap card. It's very, very simple. Just drag your video, the timeline, right there, go to your video, then just drag the corners like that. Just like that, you remove the watermark. So that's exactly how you can go about doing that. It's very simple and straightforward. Okay, so that's pretty much it for this video, guys. If you want to download these videos with the watermark, you can just edit that part out and you're good to go. So thanks for watching this video. Peace. 7. What Makes an Ai Video Watchable: So what makes an AI video actually watchable? So AI makes it easy to create videos, but let's be honest, most of them look boring and forgettable. So what separates a scroll past from something people actually watch? And in this video, I'm going to break down what makes an AI video truly engaging. So the first thing I want to talk about is having a clear visual focus. So you need to create AI videos that have a clear visual focus, something the eye can follow. So whether it's just a subject, emotion or a center theme, don't overload the screen. So just make it as simple as possible because simplicity sticks. And secondly, is good pacing and flow. So a lot of AI videos feel random because they rhythm. So if you have good pacing, that means you're going to have the right amount of time for each shot. And a moment to breathe. So first cuts, build energy, slow transitions, build mood. So match the flow of your video to the emotion you want your audience to feel. And the third thing I want to talk about is the story or the intention behind your video. Even a short ten second clip may work better when there's a purpose behind it. So ask yourself, what's the idea of this video? Are you creating a dream sequence, a visual metaphor, a mood or a loopb aesthetic? So make sure that every video that you create, there's a story or an intention behind it. So when you're creating your content using AI, before you hit generate, think, is this visually clear? Does it flow well and does it have intention? And once you get those three things right, that's going to help you create more engaging videos. And that's the difference between a video people watch once and one that they remember. 8. Conclusion: Okay, so now this brings us to the end of this class. So thanks watching this class, guys. I hope you've learned a lot and you've got some value from all the lessons in this class. What I want you guys to go and do right now is go ahead and create your own videos. So go ahead and generate your AI images and turn those images into videos and create your own, you know, idea and go ahead and share that as a class project. That's going to be actually helpful for other students who are learning to get some inspiration if they can see what you've done with your content. So thanks for watching this class. I hope you got a little of value, and I'll see in the next one.